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> “Let me reassure you, the things that you will see in that story, those are not the words of Mark Robinson,” he said in the video, blaming his opponent, Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein, for leaking information against him to CNN. “Folks, this race right now, our opponents are desperate to shift the focus here from the substantive issues and focus on what you are concerned with to salacious tabloid trash.”
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> Gaetz is accused of attending "a drug-fueled sex party in 2017 with the 17-year-old girl at the center of the alleged sex trafficking scandal" in a court filing in Florida posted just before midnight in Florida.
> The NOTUS report states, "The minor, who was a junior in high school at the time, arrived in her mother’s car for a July 15, 2017 party at the Florida home of Chris Dorworth, a lobbyist and friend of Gaetz’s, according to a court filing written by defense attorneys who interviewed witnesses as part of an ongoing civil lawsuit Dorworth brought in 2023."
> A New York magazine political reporter who allegedly engaged in an undisclosed affair with former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. acknowledged she began a personal relationship with a “reporting subject,” but denied that it became physical.
Olivia Nuzzi, New York’s 31-year-old Washington columnist, was placed on leave for what the magazine called a “violation of our readers’ trust.”
Olivia Nuzzi, New York’s 31-year-old Washington columnist, was placed on leave for what the magazine called a “violation of our readers’ trust.”
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> “This is Martin Luther King on steroids,” the former president said. “I told that to Mark. I said, ‘I think you’re better than Martin Luther King. I think you are Martin Luther King times two.’”
Republicans are defending by saying Clinton was not given the same treatment when he repeatedly "raped".
> Girdusky fired back, asking what consequences former President Bill Clinton faced after he was "credibly accused of rape several times" as well as former Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, who was twice accused of domestic abuse. Clinton was endorsed by female groups, noted Girdusky, and Ellison was defended by Tim Walz and is now the state attorney general.
"There is multiple cases of Democrats doing something bad, and the party stands behind them," he said. "That happens a lot."
"There is multiple cases of Democrats doing something bad, and the party stands behind them," he said. "That happens a lot."
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> The civil rights icon’s son said of North Carolina’s lieutenant governor: “I am not surprised by Mark Robinson’s alleged inflammatory and offensive comments about my father, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. His praise for slavery, disparaging rhetoric, and grotesque characterization of my dad and his legacy are deeply worrisome for North Carolinians and all Americans who oppose racism and bigotry.”
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Guardian: Georgia election board approves rule change that could delay determining presidential winner
> The Georgia state election board was advised by the attorney general’s office that the decision to hand-count ballots was likely illegal.
“The statutes upon which these rules rely do not reflect any provision enacted by the general assembly for the hand-counting of ballots prior to tabulation,” it said.
“The statutes upon which these rules rely do not reflect any provision enacted by the general assembly for the hand-counting of ballots prior to tabulation,” it said.
> “There are thus no provisions in the statutes cited in support of these proposed rules that permit counting the number of ballots by hand at the precinct level prior to delivery to the election superintendent for tabulation. Accordingly, these proposed rules are not tethered to any statute – and are, therefore, likely the precise type of impermissible legislation that agencies cannot do,” the attorney general’s office wrote in a memo.
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